The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 17, 1920, Page 4

FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second ‘Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN : : if Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY perro - Marquette Bldg. Kresge ig. aes PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK : : - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. hi a i a The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. fees, f All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year....... aaa ++ $7.20 Editor Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck vee 1.20 Daily by mail, ree year (in state outside Bismarck) 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota..........++ 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1878) <i> OUT IN THE OPEN In the readers’ column today, the Tribune pub- lishes a long communication from Theodore Nel- son, secretary of the Independent Voters Asso- ciation. He brands as untruthful a news story published in the Tribune of recent date that a call had been issued by the I, V. A. for the Re- publican and Democratic conventions. This in- formation, was received by the Tribune from a reliable source and we published it as current po- litical rumor. The Tribune has no quarrel with the I. V. A,, but believes that it can function best as an ed- ucational force against the spread of the red menace, but when it comes to selecting delegates, candidates and performing other party functions, its individual members prefer to function as dem- ocrats or republicans as the case may be. In fairness to all parties concerned, The Tri- bune publishes Mr. Nelson’s inordinately long communication. He takes a gratuitous fling at Mr. Langer’s' supporters which only confirms most of the story that he is taking exception to. His logic elsewhere is weak and unsupported by the report of the committee of ‘twenty-one which specifically gives the I. V. A. an arbitrary repre- sentation ip the Minot convention. The Tribune is informed that this plan has been abandoned under pressure of both demo- ‘eratic and republican members of the I. V. A. The Tribune is also informed that Mr. Nelson’s attitude does not reflect that of the membership of this most worthy organization. We are concerned only with success next June and in November. It is gratifying to learn that the Minot conventions will be called in a regular way. .Complete harmony has been ‘restored ‘and: the anti-Townley republicans’and democrats can present a united front against the, political high- binders who now occupy the séats of the mighty. BESTOWING BRAINS | Two hundred years ago John Locke said that God did not make man a two-legged creature and leave it to the logician Aristotle to make him ra- tional. Yet friendly' critics of the public schools continually complain that they do not teach their pupils to think—to be alert and to deal success- fully with all kinds of new situations. : The. charge is true, but absurd. For all the schooling in the world cannot create brains in a creature born without them, or add a single ounce to what is already there, any more than training can improve a stunted breed of cattle. If it could intelligence would not run in families, and there would be no serious problem of the feeble-minded. The function of a school is not'to teach pupils to think, but to give them something worth thank- ing about. It is not to make them alert and,en- terprising; but to see that the alertness and en- terprise which they already have carries them into some decent place in society and not into the gutter. A school cannot teach anyone to do entirely new things successfully. That is a matter of brains and luck. But it can train its pupils beforehand in the doing of many things that life is likely to demand of them; so that when the time for action comes they will flounder less than they otherwise would have. To its brighter pupils the school can teach gen- eral principles which give meaning to the routine of later work. It can help them all to find their level far, far more easily than they could without it. > THE RIGHT RECIPE Ka-Be-Nah-Gwey-Weno, the Chippewa Indian chief, recently celebrated whatthe insists was his 130th birthday. The ancient redskin was in a jocular mood at his birthday party. An inquisitive reported asked him: “What would you advise people to do to live 130 years?” The chief replied: “Don’t die beford you're 131.” Can you think of a better recipe for longevity? EQUALITY North Dakota has tested its “children equality” _law. This act, the first of its kind in the country, Pgovides that a child born out of wedlock is the child of its natural parents, and as such, is en- titled to support, shelter and education equally with other children born in legal marriage, and is entitled to share in any estate jointly with all other heirs. The law..was held constitutional in a case tried at Fargo. In that instance the child was awarded its father’s name and declared his heir, There are just 47 states in the Union in need of such legislation. The studies pursued by congressmen who take that trip to the Orient this summer will not in- clude methods of cutting out useless expenditures of public money. Palmer maintains ‘that the “divorcement ° de- cree’ in the case of the packers pleased everybody. At least it pleased Palmer and the packers, EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinions of The Tribune, They are pre- sented here in order what our readers may have both sides of important issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. THE OUTLAW STRIKE ' If Americans are to be subdued by foreign meth- ods, which rest upon Bolshevist theories and prac- tice and all the sanctions of dictation by the pro- ! letariat, the strike of the so-called “outlaw” socie- ties of railway workers that began in Chicago a little over a week ago is the kind of ‘strike to which they will submit. A Chicago & Northwest- ern railway conductor, subsequently a yard mas- ter, is discharged. He is described as having been a pro-German in the war and removed from the Railway Trainmen’s Brotherhood on that account. On his own hook and for his own purposes, or those of the trouble makers, he formed an “out- law union.” ‘From the Pacific to the Atlantic a strike was begun, without knowledge of its rea- son, ignorantly, “on orders.” No notice was giv- en. Peremptorily, without the slightest regard to the interests of the railway employes or the country, a band of radicals in divers cities called this strike, unlawful under federal statute and unpermitted by the rules of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. Incalculable los$ and disaster might have _ re- sulted from this lirke, Still, the calling of: it may have salutary results. Men who are virtu- ally or actually communists or anarchists have be- come perniciously active in labor unions. _ They seek no improvement of the conditions of labor. They strive to disrupt, disorganize and paralyze the communications, the industries, the food: sup- ply of the United States. They initiate a policy of “direct action” not to ameliorate any factual grievances, but to produce social and economic confusion and collapse. They are. promoting strikes not with any view to real grievances, but for the sake of causing the gravest public losses, the destruction of ‘the American polity, the erec: tion of a soviet form, of: government.—Neéw York Times, ? . x A NEIGHBOR'S MOVE FOR DELIVERANCE Important steps have been taken in-Fargo, N. D., looking toward a merger of republican, demo- crat and independent voting fotces against the candidates of the Townley Nonpartisan league in the coming campaign. ‘ Republicans who hold a convention prior to the June primaries and indorse candidates for state offices to contest with the Townley candidates for republican nominations. Democrats will hold a convention in-the same place and on the same day and indorse such candidates of their party as, they believe, will be acceptable to republican vot- ers so’ that, if the Townleyites capture the repub- lican nominations in June, the anti-Townley vot- ers can give their cordial support to democratic nominees in the November elections. It is further proposed that republicans and dem- ocrats pool their forces in the several legislative districts, split the nominations something like fifty-fifty, and combine in November against the Townley candidates for legislative offices. With what success this bipartisan plan can be carried into execution remains to be seen. There may be obstacles hard, if not imposgible, to over- come, but the fact that there is a lively demand for concert of action of this kind is one of the in- dications of a rapidly increasing popular revolt against the socialistic regime that has played hob with the social and material interests of the state in the last three years. Within the last year many of the men who helped bring the Nonpartisan league into political power in North Dakota have broken away from the Townley camp, convinced that the leaders in that camp are not sincere in their protestations of benevolent regard for the welfare of the state and its people. The chief of these is William Langer, elected attorney general on the Nonparti- san league ticket. There are other revolters hold- ing state offices by former favor of the league who contend that Townley and his henchmen are thoroughly discredited and not to be trusted by the farmers whose special champions they pretend to be, or by the voters representing any other class of North Dakota citizenship. That these re- volterq are correct in their opinions is the judg- ment of an evergrowing number of voters—re- publican, democratic and even erstwhile Nonparti- san league. Minnesotans who are proud of their state and intent upon keeping it in the front rank of pro- gressive, sane commonwealths, will not overlook this new movement in North Dakota to throw off the galling, choking yoke of Townleyism. North. Dakotans know by experience what this yoke means. Minnesotans owe it to themselves never to know it save by observation.—Minneapolis Tribune. BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE ~— THE GREAT AMERICAN HOME ZN ILI dL APRIL 17. 1920 SATURDA fj DioWAT RosER i CuarGe You #125 /) FoR “Those. THREE. LvTLe crore? ee PRE GON! Dyce: “TAKING ADWANT! ace or aA caoll Give mi “ f PEOPLE'S FORUM CHALLENGES ARTICLE | Editor The Tribune, ee Bismarck, N. D. Dear Sir: a In your\issue of April 15th appeared i an article which is untruthful both in the headlines and in the body. qi The article states: “Reports were received in Bismarck today that the! 1, V. A. had issued a call and are now proceeding to control the convention ; in Minot, etc.” This is absolutely talse. ‘ It has ben_the hope and, expecta- | tion of the thousands of men and wo- | men who have built the I. V. A,, that | it might be possible for those who are opposed to Townleyism to assemble in| one convention as the supporters of the League program do, and in that} way unite on one state ticket, but the! men who make up the I. V. A. are in! a large measure the men who have unselfishly donesthe most to perpetu- ate the two dog it political parties in) the: state, ang, it.is therefore but natural ‘that: théy should try to main- tain the party organizations. On ac- count of this desire and the legal elitanglements encountered, it was deemed impossible to unite on one ticket before the primary election, hence there seemed to'be nothing else to do than to follow the recommenda- tions of the comthittee of twenty-one as closely as possible, and if that rec- ommendation is followed in the main there can hardly arise any occasion uow for the calling of an I. V. A. con- vention, at least not until after the primaries are over. Further in the same article occurs this statement: “The so-called com- mittee of twenty-eight selected by the I. V. A. to name dagegates to the Mi- not .convention.” ‘This too is wrong. The article of course refers to the committee of twenty-one . It was not seclected by-the I. V. A. Jt was made up by the: appointment of seven men by the chairman of the democratic central committee, seven by the chairman of the reconstructed republican. committee, and seven 'by the executive committee of the I. V. A. At no time has it been the purpose or has it been: authoratively stated that this committee would name dele- gates to the Minot convention. The article referred to also contains this statement. .“This call gives the I. V. A, more than 100 hand picked delegates and under control of the sponsors of that organization and sup- | posed to be unalterably opposed to the gubernatorial aspirations of Wil- Mam Langer.” This is 100% false. In the first place, as above stated, there has been no call. In the second place, the recommendations made by the committee of twenty-one provided only for those members of the execu- tive committee of the IV. A. who are republicans to be delegated at large in the proposed convention. There are cnly twenty-one in all of these, of which only fourteen or fifteen are re- publicans. It may be that a large number of the state. central committeemen in both republican and democratic ranks are members of the I. V. A., but we trust that this should not disbar them from a voice and vote in an anti-Town- ley convention, since everyone who is willing to be fair’ and keeps up with what is going on realizes that no one has done more effective work in op- position to the developments of Town- leyism in their respective neighbor- ee BROTHERS TAKE BANK POSITIONS | Two out-of-town’ banks called on Dakota BusinessCollege, Fargo, N. D., for Asst. Cashiers recently. Edw. and John Graff, brothers, who had completed the Commerce ’ and Banking course were recom- mended. The former went to the Bank of Lisbon, the latter to the First State Bank of Ruso. Hundreds of bank executives and big business men owe their success to D. B. C. training. “Follow the fucce$$ful.”” Enter school for spring term, about to begin. Write F. L. Watkins, Pres., 806 Front St., Fargo, N. Di lyoods than the members of the I. V. A. There are not many active opponents to Townleyism among the demograts or republicans, who are not members of the I. V. A., and I fancy that it will be a rather sickly looking convention that either party would have if all the members. of the I. V. A. were to be excluded. . I may be permitted to state in this connection that the I. V. A. is neither an office grabbing institution nor a glory, gathering -one. We should worry about who gets the glory or even who gets the offices so long a3 they are bound by a platform that is fairly consistent with the I. V. A. stand on Townleyism. The I. V. A. is opposed to Townleyism as express- ed by its disciples who stimulate neighbor-hating and who resort to lying: insinuations and personal villi- fication to gain political ends. The I. V. A. is opposed to the socialization of industry, the \squandering of public menev and the ruthless disregard of constitutional provisions which has been resorted to by the advocates -of Townlevism. The I. V. A. is not in- terested in the boodle policy of the Nonpartisan League. I Alon’t know ut what the originators of it are en- titled tgthe fruits of it until a major- ity of ‘the voters ‘of Norh Dakota ger behind a legiflature and a set of state! officials who will stop it. In order to make up the 100 ‘dele-| gates that this article styles as nana picked. it would be necessary to in- clude all the state central committee- men ofthe republican party and some “more, and it would be an insult to those men to even suggest that they | are under the control.of anybody. 1} may be permitted to say also that so far as the I. V. A. state: headquarters is concerned we have absolutely no check on how these forty-nine men! stand with reference to the candidacy ot William Langer, and since the I. V. A. as an organization has no par- ticular interest in the candidacy of any | ene man before the anticipated con-! vention has spoken. there can be no ‘good reason whv the I. V, A. should | not be willing that its entire execu-_ tive committee\ and all of the forty- nine central committeemen should not be delegates of the convention unless they are elected\ by their fellow citi- zeris in their respective counties. It seems both amusing and strange HE Wovlon'T Even. ay AMIENER, WusT , HE WourvAlT ‘ism on laws only. ‘any trouble in our campaign then, and that, we should have so much fuss ttt macmost naa x 7 about getting together now when we think of the fact that a mass conven- tion was universally approved two years ago by means of which to se- lect a state ticket. A mass conven- tion is ten times more dangerous than any kind of a delegate convention. Qne year azo we were getting ready for a-real contest against Towntey- We had scarcely | I anticipate that if we could concern] ourselves now with only the anti-red’ flag law and the other three red ter- ror laws we would not have any trou- ble in our camp. All.taJk about candi- dates helping to carry the day against Tewnleyism is bosh. The best of them are a load, and I do not hesitate to say that the. friends of William Lan- ger have done more to get the public mind centered on ‘individuals instead of on principles in this contest than the friends of all other tentative and | positive candidates put together. My chief ‘concern is with what we are fighting and-not who leads the fight. _If we are not ‘careful -we, will .so lose our, heads “over. candidates that we will forget to roll. up a majority. vote “for” the anti-red flag law that is to be voted on June 30th. If that is defeated North Dakota and North Dakotans will be forever disgraced. Yours truly, By THEO. G. NELSON, Secretary, I. V. A. Editor's P. S.—By wire we receivea the following modification today: Fargo, N. D., April 16. Tribune, ‘ Bismarck, N. D, ; Regarding my communication mau- ed tonight make the next to last para- graph read: “The-best of them are a cad and I do not hesitate to say hat a few of the William Langer boosters have done more to get the public mina centered. Quotation, etc. THEO. G. NELSON. DOES NOT LIKE THEM Editor Bismarck, Tribune, Bismarck, N. D. Dear Sir:— I am, and have been for a long time, a reader of your valuable paper, and I hope that you will not take it amiss it I differ a little with you about some things, in your paper. I refer to the articles you run called the “Saturday Evening Letters” by Judge Robinson of the Supreme Court. EVERETT TRUE HELLO, EVERCTT. FEARFUL COLD I LAID OFE TODAYs PASS \T AROUND § Get IN HERES ANO THAN A DAY bare) 5) ry aes Tivé Got A ' 1D THE HEAD GO ID A'D LOOK AT’ THE FILBS CONTAGION In Meee any NN 4 b CONTAGION 1 SON omar MOF You GOING, IN ANY OTHER ONE YOU'LL CAY OFF MORG : By Condo z= 1 THRK JC \F i HEAR a eee SF ‘the Bismarck Tribune should want to I am unable to see why a paper like run this kind of nonsense, the matters in these Saturday letters being neither political nor sensible, nor in any way interesting to anywthinking person, as far as I can see.” This man who writes these ‘letters is a judge, a judge of our highest court, but the ordinary layman can pick out the utter nonsense of what he says; for instante, he says that Messers Kositzky, Hagan, Olson, Lan- ger and Governor Frazier raised the valuation of the property in the state instead of ‘lowering it, when we all kuow:that they did only what the leg- islature told them to do, in other words the legislature raised the valu- ation, and those men sitting as a board of equalization merely classified the different kinds of property to comply with the law. Then again Judge Robinson attacks Kositzky for not putting time enough in at’ his office, and says that Judge Pronson. does not attend to his duties regularly; I know, that Carl Kositzky is a horse for work, and thinks noth- ing of staying up. ‘half the night if there is work on hand that ought to , be done, and’ that ‘he runs the busi- ness of his office in‘fine shape; and I never heayd anyone else say that Judge Bronson did not attend strictly to his work at all times, and I am will- ing to bet any amount of money that Kositzky, Langer and Judge Bronson , do 50 per cent: more real work than Judge Robinson does, or can do, I have always respected our courts. and I believe that they should be re- spected, and I fear that your running of these so called .Saturday Letters”, has a bad influence on people, and helps to bring an undeserved contempt upon the other Judges of the Supreme court, who are in no wise to blame for Judge Robinson being there. Never before in our state, and probably not in any other state, has such a thing gcne on as the writing of these Sat- urday Letters by a Judge of a high court, and as the foremost paper of this part of the state, I think you should leave the Venerable but non- sensical Judge Robinson to find some other way to exhibit his eccentricities. Judge Robinson often quotes the Bible, 1 will also quote a little verse of it. “A whip! for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back.” A Bismarck Tribune reader. “AT THE MOVIES | > y The night rider’s chase is one of the big scenes in the First National special production, “In Old Ken- tucky,” with Anita Stewart, which will be shown at the Eltinge Theatre tonight. The setting of the picture is back in the old lawless days when the moonghiners defied the law and when men of the mountains still settled their differences with the gun, whild the men of the cities, impatient of the delays of the law, often tdok it into’ their own hand, RAILROAD. LABOR BOARD PERFECTS ORGANIZATION. ° - Washington, April 17.—The railroad labor board perfected a tempdrary or- ganization at its initial meeting today by electing Henry Hunt, former mayor of Cincinnati as chairman’‘and G. Wal- lace W. Hanger of this city as secre- tary. Both are members of the public group. The wage dispute as it stood with the breaking up of the bi-partizan wage conference here two weeks ago was submitted to the board, Mr. Han- ger announced and the board will con- sider it at once. “Worth,” in proper names, as. in Kenilworth, (Edgeworth, etc,. signifies that the town stands on a tongue of land. Coming To BISMARCK \Dr. Mellenthin . SPECIALIST For His Eighth Year in North Dakota . 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